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SUMMARY:My Sextortion Diary - Co-presented by the Guelph Film Festival and Ed Video
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, November 2 at 7:30 PM (ET) for the a screening of “My Sextortion Diary\,” directed by Patricia Franquesa (Spain)\, co-presented by the Guelph Film Festival and Ed Video.\n \nPatricia Franquesa ⋅ Spain ⋅ 64 min ⋅ Full Subtitles \n\nThis film screening will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event is $15 or Pay What You Want. \nMore About the Event\nThe Guelph Film Festival is back from November 1st–9th\, showing films about our world and relationships\, with themes of resistance\, inclusion\, and care! \nIn collaboration with Ed Video\, the GFF will be screening Patricia Franquesa’s My Sextortion Diary at the ImprovLab. The film documents the experience of the filmmaker after her laptop is stolen and an anonymous hacker begins sending intimate images of her to her contacts\, demanding payment to stop. Realizing that thousands of others have had a similar experience\, and that the authorities will be of little help\, Franquesa takes it on herself to figure out a way to end this situation. Franquesa tells her story with humour and candour\, via texts\, emails\, and phone calls\, refusing to be shamed\, and “reclaiming the fragments of her body.” \nAfter the screening\, the audience will be able to take in Intimate Power\, “a media arts exploration of vulnerability online and living in a digital culture.” \nThe suggested admission for this event is $15\, but attendees are free to pay what they want—GFF would rather you come if interested than miss out because of the ticket cost\, so please do come on out! \nGrab your tickets here!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/my-sextortion-diary-co-presented-by-the-guelph-film-festival-and-ed-video/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace—Reading and Conversation with Dr. Phanuel Antwi (UBC)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, November 13 at 1:00 PM (ET) for On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace—a Reading and Conversation with Dr. Phanuel Antwi (UBC) \nThis event will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. This event is free and open to everybody!\n \nMore About the Event\nRanging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship’s hold to the racist encoding of ‘cuddly’ toys\, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics\, Antwi focuses his lens on the suffering of Black people at the hands of state violence and racial capitalism. As radical movements grow to advance Black liberation\, so too must our ways of understanding how racial capitalism embraces us all. Antwi turns to cuddling\, an act we imagine as devoid of violence\, and explores it as a tense transfer point of power. \nMore About the Presenter\nDr. Phanuel Antwi is the Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He is an artist\, teacher and organizer concerned with race\, poetics\, movements\, intimacy\, and struggle. He works with text\, dance\, film\, and photography to intervene in artistic\, academic\, and public spaces. He is a curator\, activist\, and associate professor. He is an alumnus of the U of G and a research team member with the IICSI. \nPresented by Interdisciplinary Programs\, the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation\, and the Office of Academic Equity and Anti-Racism
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/on-cuddling-loved-to-death-in-the-racial-embrace-reading-and-conversation-with-dr-phanuel-antwi-ubc/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Phil Mullen\, "Ways Into Improvisation"
DESCRIPTION:*** Rescheduled to 12:00 PM (ET) *** \nPlease join us on Friday\, November 15 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Ways Into Improvisation” with Phil Mullen. \nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About the Workshop\nIn this participatory workshop\, Dr Mullen will look at three approaches to group improvising—1) improvising with pulse and rhythm\, 2) using stimuli such as text\, visuals and thematic starting points\, and 3) the Search and Reflect methodology as pioneered by Phil’s mentor John Stevens\, a key figure in European Free Group Improvisation. Please bring an instrument if possible. \nMore About the Presenter\nPhil Mullen has worked for forty years developing music with people who are socially excluded. He specializes in working with excluded children and young people at risk. He has run workshops\, seminars and training in 28 countries across Europe\, North and South America\, Australia and Asia. \nPhil has a PHD from Winchester University and has written a number of book chapters on musical inclusion including for the Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018). Phil’s book “Challenging Voices: Music making with young people excluded from school” is published by Peter Lang.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-phil-mullen-ways-into-improvisation/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Priya Zalis\, "Clinical Improvisation in Music Psychotherapy"
DESCRIPTION:*** Rescheduled to 12:00 PM (ET) *** \nPlease join us on Friday\, November 22 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Clinical Improvisation in Music Psychotherapy” with Priya Zalis.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About this Workshop:\nIn this workshop\, Priya will introduce her approach to music psychotherapy in the context of adult mental health\, inviting attendees to participate in exploring the role that clinical improvisation can play in accessing and processing emotions\, building social connection\, and developing personal insights and growth.  \nMore About the Presenter:\nPriya Zalis (RP\, MTA\, MMT) is a music therapist\, psychotherapist\, and educator working in adult inpatient mental health and addictions in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. She holds a Master’s in Music Therapy (Wilfrid Laurier University) and a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Gestalt Institute of Toronto)\, and has prior experience in hospice\, oncology\, long-term care\, and community mental health settings. Current research explores the impacts of group music therapy in trauma processing and issues related to diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, and belonging in Canadian music therapy. She loves spending time with her family and getting lost in a good book. \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-priya-zalis-clinical-improvisation-in-music-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY:IMPR 6030: Research Methods Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, November 27\, from 1:00 PM–3:45 PM for the “IMPR 6030: Research Methods Symposium\,” with Simon Flint\, Mark Leroy\, and Georgia Simms. \nThis event will take place in person at MacKinnon Building\, Room 203 at the University of Guelph. Light snacks and beverages will be provided. The Symposium is free and open to everybody! \nMore About the Event\nThe University of Guelph’s newest IMPR cohort—Georgia Simms\, Mark Leroy\, and Simon Flint—have been hard at work this semester thinking and writing their way through their research topics\, questions\, and methodological frameworks. A significant part of research\, especially in its early stages\, is to come together to listen\, share ideas\, locate convergences\, offer critique\, and grow together as a supportive scholarly community. \nEach week this semester we have been engaged in such activities. Now\, we are pleased to invite the wider research community to join us for a few hours as the three present their work. Presentations will be twenty minutes with an additional ten to fifteen minutes allotted for Q&A. \nFollowing is a list of presentation titles: \n\nSimon Flint | “Stitching Queer Narratives: A Practice-Led Exploration of Improv Quilting”\n\n\nMark Leroy | “Ordinary Boy: Writing a Fictive Coming of Age Memoir based on Familial Intergenerational Trauma as a Rite of Passage”\n\n\nGeorgia Simms | “We Might As Well Dance: A Research Creation Case Study”\n\nFeel free to reach out to their instructors\, jashen and Lauren\, if you have any questions: jashen@uoguelph.ca \, springl@uoguelph.ca. \nMore About the Presenters\nSimon Flint\, originally from Calgary\, Alberta\, has received both a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Production and Design\, and a Master of Arts in Fashion from Toronto Metropolitan University. Simon is a practicing textile artist and designer; whose work explore craft\, experimental design\, and sustainable practices interwoven with queer and feminist theory. Throughout his career he has worked in an assortment of roles within theatre\, both as a designer and a technician\, as well as in academic institutions as a teaching assistant\, costume coordinator and social media specialist. Presently\, On top of his Ph.D. studies Simon is the Program Costume Coordinator for School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. \nGuided by attunement and awe for the beauty of the human condition\, Mark LeRoy\, in artistic and collectivistic collaboration\, attempts to allow space and time for the unimagined\, unthought\, and unspoken in the hope that we may become witnesses to stories no longer lost in time or veiled by shame but voiced by aesthetic compassion and grace. \nAs a PhD student exploring how Bildungsroman memoirs—coming-of-age stories of initiated personhood—may help free the grasp of intergenerational trauma\, Mark’s yearning for our culture is that we may find the courage to lay down our certainty for wonder as we are reformed into ourselves by that of which we have been entrusted and freed to give of ourselves for a time we will not live to see. \nGeorgia Simms is a performing artist\, educator and facilitator. Her dance performance career spanning 25 years\, both as an apprentice and company member with Dancetheatre David Earle and as a freelance artist\, has taken her to stages in different parts of Canada\, France and South Korea. \nSince 2005\, she has hosted technique classes for adults that honour the lineage of modern dance offered to her by David Earle (co-founder of Toronto Dance Theatre in 1968)\, with strong ties to the work of Martha Graham\, José Limón and other leaders of American Modern Dance (1930-1960). \nSensing the edges of a ritualized technical practice\, both for herself and her community of students\, she began an investigation of improvisation in 2006 as part of a Guelph-based collective\, Fall on your Feet\, with Janet Johnson\, Catrina von Radecki\, Lynette Segal\, Tanya Williams and Kelly Steadman. Finding ongoing astonishment and discovery in this realm\, she established a class in dancetheatre improvisation in 2014 with musician Adam Bowman which continues to grow. The group explores an ever-evolving syllabus of tasks and parameters that provoke a generous investigation of the responsibilities and consequences of individual and collective choice-making. \nShe remains grateful for the opportunity to have been an artist-in-residence with Guelph Dance in 2020-2021 and for ongoing involvement as a guest choreographer and teacher with the Guelph Youth Dance Training Program. \nAlongside her dance career have been academic pursuits including a Bachelor’s Degree in International Development and Environmental Studies\, a Master’s Degree in Geography with an emphasis on environmental governance\, and an integration of her worlds through arts-based community engagement through various projects. A long time member of the University of Guelph professional community\, she has worked as a practitioner-in-residence with Community Engaged Scholarship Institute\, a facilitator with ReVision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice\, a workshop leader with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation\, and a Sessional Instructor with the former First Year Seminar Program. \nGeorgia also weaves movement and improvisation into methodology\, program design\, evaluation and group facilitation as an invited consultant and workshop leader for regional arts organizations and universities\, most recently with Art Not Shame\, Guelph Youth Music Centre\, Elora Centre for the Arts\, and McMaster University. \nShe lives in Guelph\, Ontario\, with her husband\, Adam\, and their six-year old daughter.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/impr-6030-research-methods-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Guelph\, MacKinnon Building\, 87 Trent Ln\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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